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Daniel Bernstein (qmail, djbdns, etc): http://cr.yp.to

The bug searched for is using the assignment operator = instead of the equality operator ==.

Ha, thanks! I didn't notice '=' was wrong there, part of me thinks that can actually be common in C (assigning the result of a condition to be further used within the block).

It can be intentional if the right side is a function call.

But something like:

if (errno = 0) { blah(); }

is almost certainly a bug.

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